For Fans Of: Diet Cig / Hop Along / Waxahatchee
File Under: Country Emo
New record out on GET BETTER RECORDS (La Dispute / HIRS collective / Cayetana / Fucked Up / Sheer Mag)
Remember Sports have always sounded like a band in motion—chasing a feeling, chasing each other, sometimes running from themselves. Over the past decade, they've built a cult following on the strength of bruising live shows, emotionally honest lyrics, and an ever-evolving sound that refuses to be pinned down. With their newest album, The Refrigerator, out February 13, 2026 via Get Better Records, the band captures the messy, cathartic energy of transformation: it’s a record born from uncertainty, grief, growth, and ultimately, love—for the music, for each other, and for the many past selves colliding into the present.
Singer and guitarist Carmen Perry began writing the songs in the wake of 2021’s Like a Stone—an album they couldn’t tour due to the pandemic. “It felt like everything I had worked for was falling apart,” she says. “For a while, I wasn’t sure what the world was going to look like post-COVID, let alone my life. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to play music the way I had before.” At 28, she took a full-time job at an elementary school and found unexpected inspiration in the surreal, sincere world of children. “Kids are weird and wonderful and deeply intuitive,” she says. “Helping them through COVID made me think constantly about my own childhood—memories came flooding back, and so did this intense desire to protect and nurture the little kid I used to be. That completely changed how I approached my writing, and honestly, how I approached my life.”
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Fortitude Valley
Fortitude Valley is the brainchild of Durham-based Australian Laura Kovic. Taking influence from the likes of The Beths, The Go-Go’s and Pavement, what results is a ludicrously addictive cocktail of heart-stopping indie-punk power-pop melody and a back catalogue of songs that’ll be living in your head, rent free, for evermore.
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